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You did want Jerry to carry your doctrines out into the world with him, didn't you?" "I'm not aware " "And I discovered him far too stodgy to endure. It wasn't so much that your philosophy and mine differed as the difference they made in Jerry. And so we clashed. I won." I was silent. "Didn't I, Mr. Canby?" she persisted, in her gentlest tone.
After that, he had but to walk down Fifty-second Street half a block, pass a stodgy family of brownstone houses and then in a jiffy he was under the high ceilings of his great front room. This was entirely satisfactory. Here, after all, life began. Here he slept, breakfasted, read, and entertained.
My eyes were caught by his stodgy, nervous hands, as he held the match to his cigarette; then they wandered to his face to the black hair flecked here and there with gray; to the bright, deep-set eyes, ambushed under heavy brows; to the full lips, which the carefully arranged mustache did not at all conceal; to the projecting chin, with its little plume of an imperial.
I tell him it's better, for he can afford to, and if he stays in the City, he'll only get stodgy, and perhaps lose his money. And now do come up and have some tea with us, unless you're very busy, which I can't understand you being. Billy won't be down till Saturday, and I persuaded Vera to come with me, so that I shouldn't be too dull."
"Maggie," said Tom, confidentially, taking her into a corner, as soon as his mother was gone out to examine his box and the warm parlor had taken off the chill he had felt from the long drive, "you don't know what I've got in my pockets," nodding his head up and down as a means of rousing her sense of mystery. "No," said Maggie. "How stodgy they look, Tom!
But I do wonder why it is wrong to look pretty in bed, considering nobody sees one, too! Monday, November 14th. I have not felt like writing; these last days have been so stodgy sticky, I was going to say. Endless infant talk. The methods of head nurses, teething, the knavish tricks of nursemaids, patent foods, bottles, bibs everything. Enough to put one off forever from wishing to get married.
Then, confidentially, 'We've got one new helper that we've great hopes of. She joined to-day. 'Some one who can speak? 'Oh, she'll speak, I dare say, by and by. Subscribes? 'I expect she'll subscribe, too. She takes such an interest. Plenty of courage, too. 'How do you know? 'Well' the voice dropped 'she's all right, but she belongs to rather stodgy people.
But people dull stodgy people like Uncle Clem and Aunt Mollie, and old Beckonridge down at the store, and a dozen others these criticized him for not "workin' reg'lar" and giving a full account of himself. Luke, thinking of all this, would flush with impotent anger. "Oh, let 'em talk, though! He'll show 'em some day! They dunno Nat. He'll do somethin' big fur us all some day."
Similar troops of sociable human beings have visited much more insignificant English travellers in America, with some of whom I am myself acquainted. I myself have the luck to be a little more stodgy and less sensitive than many of my countrymen; and certainly less sensitive than Dickens.
Feeling: it came about from chemicals that surrounded an impression made in the gel of memory, and if the impression was a good one, they tried to prompt a being toward more of them, and if it was bad with less of such engagements. Staggering, her stodgy physical being also had trouble moving. She went to the bathroom with a belief that she would take a shower so that she could go to the shop.
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